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What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Importance of Social Status in Science
In a sense, I also see social status as being connected to this. Like for example, if someone is wrong in public, they may be really resistant to kind of admitting they were wrong or backing down from what they've said publicly. It's also something that our primitive minds are terrified of. The worst thing, you know, is being publicly shamed, publicly embarrassed, publicly criticized and widely criticized. So yeah, I think there can any kind of motivation, but especially these things that really tap into our very, very primitive kind of mentality.
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